Is there a Scientology creation story?

Hey I'm doing a religion project and I need some more information on Scientology, we're supposed to find a creation story about it, what they believe in, their gods, and what happens at a gathering (like church Sunday at a Scientology church).

Update: Holy crap are you serious about the Xenu thing?

I only saw it on Wikipedia and I don't believe it that much, can you provide me with a link to confirm it?

Update 2: Update: Anyone got anything on the whole Xenu thing yet?

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Best Answer: Actually, the book that the Scientologist user referenced, "History of Man", indicates that humans "evolved from clams". This is what L. Ron Hubbard asserts, not me. According to Hubbard, the hinges of the clam "later become the hinges of the human jaw" and the clam's method of reproducing using spores is said to be responsible for toothache. In one of the most famous passages of the book, Hubbard advised that:

Should you desire to confirm this, describe to some uninitiated person the death of a clam without saying what you are describing. "Can you imagine a clam sitting on the beach, opening and closing its shell very rapidly?" (Make a motion with your thumb and forefinger of a rapid opening and closing). The victim may grip his jaws with his hand and feel quite upset. He may even have to have a few teeth pulled: At the very least he will argue as to whether or not the shell stays open at the end or closed. And he will, with no hint of the death aspect of it, talk about the "poor clam" and he will feel quite sad emotionally.

He goes on to warn the reader that "your discussion of these incidents with the uninitiated in Scientology can cause havoc. Should you describe the "clam" to someone, you may restimulate it in him to the extent of causing severe jaw pain. One such victim, after hearing about a clam death, could not use his jaws for three days."

Now, as for "Xenu":

At level OT III (Operating Thetan Level 3), some very strange & fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): The evil alien ruler Xenu killed millions of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC-8 “space-planes”, stacking them around volcanoes & blowing them up by dropping “h-bombs” into the volcanoes. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (and according to Scientology’s belief in Thetan immortality, they also attached to us during “past lives”) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds. http://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_o...http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.htmlhttp://xenu.net/archive/leaflet/Xenu-Let...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/OTIII/

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Is there a Scientology creation story?
Hey I'm doing a religion project and I need some more information on Scientology, we're supposed to find a creation story about it, what they believe in, their gods, and what happens at a gathering (like church Sunday at a Scientology church).

Basically, Scn posits the idea that people, as spiritual beings, originated elsewhere, long before there was a planet earth that had any animals on it. Earth is considered to be a prison planet, an Australia or US colony of the intergalactic congress, so to speak. The real creation story is that people always existed as spiritual beings and that bodies are transitory, they are not the actual person. That, at one point, there was no physical universe at all, yet consciousness existed.

If you are really looking for facts about the Scientology religion and not a lot of internet /media generated disinformation and complete rubbish ( like the Xenu thing, for example ) I recommend the book "What is Scientology"
this is a comprehensive encyclopedia that will answer all your questions. We do not have a "Creation Story" in the same way that Bible based religions do. Like Buddhism doesn't have this kind of story either.

Here’s a factual description for you (From an actual Scientologist):

Scientology is a new religion. It is an applied religious philosophy. By “applied” is meant that it is for use in life and living. You actually use it in your day to day life to change and improve existing conditions. It is a practical religion.
All religions if you study them have a basic philosophy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this , but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It acknowledges the principle of God or the Supreme Being but does not try to define or describe this principle, leaving it up to the individual.
It is also not a messianic religion. This means there is no worship of prophets or messiahs or gods. It is not belief or faith based. In Scientology a truth is true for you according to your own observation and experience .
The dictionary definition that applies:

Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognises the existence of superhuman power or powers.

The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a thing you have but what YOU actually are.
Scientology believes or considers that Man is basically good. This is different from many religions that promote that he his natively evil or bad unless “made” good.

The whole purpose of Scientology knowledge application and procedure is to increase an individual’s understanding and awareness of himself as a spiritual being and to rehabilitate his native abilities and potential.
When you do this there sphere and zones of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life , his family and friends, his groups and Mankind of which he is part .

How this result is achieved is the “technology” of Scientology, which was developed by L Ron Hubbard from discoveries he made after extensive research into the field of the mind and the human spirit.
Some of this knowledge was already existing in the sacred lore of ancient texts like the Veda or Vedic Hymns going back 10,000 years. New and additional discoveries were made about the nature of the human spirit and fully recorded and codified .
Scientology’s closest spiritual ties with any other religion are with Orthodox (Hinayana ) Buddhism with which it shares an historical lineage. But even here the relationship is based mainly on friendship and the recognition of the being as a spirit rather than any organizational ties.

L.Ron Hubbard published 18 basic books from 1950 to 1955 to fully communicate the basic principles of Scientology, the path of his research and the technology that he developed from this.
He completed all his research before his death in 1986 and left all his materials and copyrights to the Church of Scientology’s Religious Technology Centre along with most of his personal estate when he died.

The Church of Scientology is currently established iand operating internationally in over 160 countries world wide. However it is still a new religion, less than 55 years old.
The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:
1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find it works.
4. People pass it along to others.
5. It grows.

This is just an overview.
L.Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 3,000 tape recorded public lectures. So it’s not possible to fully answer your question on this forum, but I hope this helps.

Scientology is a cult started by Sci-Fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, who was at one time a disciple of Aleister Crowley. They use a process called "auditing" on their followers, which is really just a mild form of hypnosis.

Source(s): http://usminc.org/scientology
http://usminc.org/crowley

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Xenu some alien, kidnapped a bunch of other aliens he didn't like and flew them to earth in spaceships shaped like DC-8 aircraft and froze them, then threw them into the volcanos of Hawaii but they escaped and attached to early man (I don't know how scientology explains them) It's some story, you should google it. Or watch the South Park episode. Or send them ten million dollars (I'm not kidding).

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If you mean creation of our bodies, you can find data on that in the basic text called "History of Man".

For us as spiritual beings, what that means and our relation to god as the creator is up to each individual.

My personal belief is that the bible stating that God made man in his own image applies to us as spiritual entities and not bodies. We do not have spiritual beings. We ARE spiritual beings.

I'm afraid you're not going to find any proof of anything in Wiki as the true data on Scientology. The actual source of data is in the basic texts that are in every library. You'd be better off going to the source, rather than the internet. You know how the media alters things to create controversy.